Beyond Basic Moves, there are a few other things in combat to keep in mind:

Starter Moves

Starter moves are moves you gain for choosing your class. Many have little to do with combat, but some provide additional benefits to you in combat.

Damage Mitigation

Some moves will let you reduce the damage coming to your character, or even negate it entirely as a free action. You can only use one such move per encounter. You can not "stack" damage mitigation or negation moves. Armor of course is exempt from this.

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Spells

A few classes can gain spells, either as the Cleric or Wizard's Cast a Spell move. Spells function like normal moves, but you must have mana equal to a spell's level in order to cast that spell. You can only cast spells explicitly provided to you by your class spell list or by additional appropriate moves.

• All spells have a somatic (hand-waving) and verbal component: that means if you are bound and/or gagged you can't cast.

  • This extends to all possible magical effects, such as shapeshifting, Til Death Do Us Part, and Curse

• Damage spells always ignore armor

• Ongoing spells always always end when you Last Gasp or dismiss them at will (no need to wait for your turn).

  • If a spell says Ongoing it applies a -1 ongoing penalty to cast spells, unless a spell or move explicitly states otherwise

• Control spells lock someone in place, dictate their actions, or otherwise inhibit their ability to act or perform. Control moves always allow for their target to make a saving throw to resist it, using the stat dictated (DEX, CON, WIS, etc). You get one saving throw in the turn you are first hit with the move, and another one in every subsequent turn you suffer from the effect. If you are affected by a control move you can't be affected by any other control moves.

  • Some Control spells make you Lose a Turn. This allows you a saving throw only once, but it also ends on your next turn.

  • Some Control spells make you Helpless: The target becomes vulnerable. If broken by damage, the target takes +1d4 damage and its attacker treats any result of 6 or lower as 7-9

  • Self-Casting, which means casting spells on yourself is not allowed, unless stated differently in the spell.

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Pre-Casting Spells/Bringing Magical Effects into Combat

You can gain the benefits of ONE magical effect (Shaman's Til Death Do Us Part/Help From Beyond, Wizard's Mirror Image spell, Druid's Harmony, or any Ongoing spell are examples) before fights start.  If you had more effects active, you will have to decide which one you keep active.

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Level-Up Moves

Level-Up Moves include Class Moves, Advanced Moves, Compendium Class Moves, and Domains. These can only be chosen when you leveled up and can sometimes augment your Basic Moves, Starter Moves, and Spells. You can choose only one move upon leveling up.

• Multiclass: Some Level-Up Moves are Multiclass moves, allowing you to select a move from another class. You can only ever choose a move from a standard class, and it can never be a Starter Move or another Multiclass Move, nor can it ever be taken from a list higher than your level (if you are level 5, you can't multiclass to take a 6-10 move).​

• Any and Every Level-Up move can only be taken once (1 time)—this includes multiclassing moves!

Bonuses

Bonuses are added to your dice rolls, as specified by the move that provides them. Bonuses generally come in four varieties:

• +n Forward: A bonus that reads something like "take +1 Forward" or "take +1 to Hack&Slash" means you can apply the bonus to a 2d6 dice roll as you please, but only as the move which provides it allows (for example, if something provides +1 forward to Last Gasp rolls, you can only apply it to a Last Gasp). These bonuses never stack with each other, nor accrue; a new +n Forward bonus overrides and replaces the previous one.

  • Exceptions to stacking: if something provides +n to damage or healing it stacks with other damage or healing; if a move explicitly states a +n is added "in addition" or "on top of," then it can also be stacked.

• +n Equipment Bonus: A bonus from equipment lasts as long as you hold or wear that equipment. These bonuses do stack.

• +n Ongoing: A bonus that reads something like "+1 ongoing" means you take that bonus to every 2d6 roll you make (unless a move specifies a different kind of roll) until the conditions which provide the bonus end. These bonuses never stack with each other, nor accrue; a new +n ongoing bonus overrides and replaces the previous one.

• +Xdn: A bonus that reads something like "+1d4" means you roll a 1d4 die (using the dice button on your HUD) and add the result as a bonus, but only as the move which provides it allows (for example, if something provides +1d4 damage with a weapon, you add the result of a 1d4 roll to your total damage). These bonuses do stack.

Penalties

Penalties are subtracted from your dice rolls, as specified by the move which penalizes them. These generally come in two varieties:

• Debilities: There's a Debility for each stat (STR, DEX, CON, etc) and each debility applies a -1 penalty to its stat. Debilities do not stack.

• -n Forward: A bonus that reads something like "-1 to your next..." means you must apply the penalty to a single 2d6 dice roll as required, but only as the move which provides it allows (for example, if something gives you -1 to your next Run Away!, you only apply it to a single Run Away! roll). These bonuses never stack with each other, nor accrue; a new -n Forward bonus overrides and replaces the previous one.

• -n Ongoing: A penalty that reads something like "-1 ongoing" means you take that penalty to every 2d6 roll you make until the conditions which provide the penalty end. These penalties do stack with each other, with no limit to how many can be stacked.

• -Xdn: A bonus that reads something like "-1d4" means you roll a 1d4 die (using the dice button on your HUD) and subtract the result as a penalty, but only as the move which provides it allows (for example, if something requires -1d4 damage with a weapon, you subtract the result of a 1d4 roll from your total damage). These penalties do stack with each other, with no limit to how many can be stacked.

Hold

Hold is a floating inventory, somewhat like ammunition, provided by certain moves. Hold can be gained or expended as the move which provides it demands. Hold from different moves doesn't stack.

Combat Inventory

When you enter a combat encounter, you always start with the following:

• 5xAmmunition: a single ammunition type for the Volley move.

You can expend one or all of these during combat, but no matter whether you do or not, you start with the same Combat Inventory every encounter.

Optional Combat Inventory

When you enter a combat encounter, you may start with the following if you have prepared them first. Save a log of your preparation; if you have no logs as proof of having prepared these, your opponent may ignore it:

• 2xPoisons (Thieves only): You can have up to two poisons per encounter, but you must declare which ones you intend to use.

• Ongoing spells/Holds/etc.: You can have ongoing spells and holds cast before a fight, but you must cast them within chat range of the people you're about to fight, and no earlier than 15 minutes before the fight starts.

If you expend one or all of these during combat, you must actively prepare them to gain them again.

Here's a flowchart for how combat goes. Start at the top and work your way down. (A more reader-friendly version will be added soon.)

Flowchart (Click me)